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Other gay-themed movies
Impish:
I think so... I just read the article in The Advocate about the gay themes underlying the X-Men films. I've never seen any of them, and was thinking I should rent the first two to prepare for seeing the new one now in theatres.
Are the first two as obvious as the new one is supposed to be?
JCinNYC2006:
I would say that probably the second one highlights some of the outsider similarities, especially with gay people, a bit more, one scene in particular. The first one does as well, but the newness of concept of mutants, in the movie's world, is different. The opening scene sets up nicely the sense of prejudice in the first one, while the second one takes it further and has more of a parallel to the stigmatization of LGBTs.
Juan
starboardlight:
yeah, in the second one, there was a scene confronting parents of one mutant boy. it played out like a coming out conversation.
Aussie Chris:
--- Quote from: starboardlight on May 31, 2006, 02:27:51 am ---yeah, in the second one, there was a scene confronting parents of one mutant boy. it played out like a coming out conversation.
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Yeah quite right starby, the line where the mother asks: "have you ever tried not being a mutant" is pretty analogous to coming out dialogue.
TOoP/Bruce:
--- Quote from: moremojo on May 04, 2006, 10:45:08 am ---While on the subject of lesbian themes in film, I thought I'd mention G.W. Pabst's late silent classic Pandora's Box (Die Buchse der Pandora), filmed in Germany in 1928. Not a lesbian film per se, this classic adaptation of Wedekind's Lulu plays (the same source for Alban Berg's landmark opera) features one of the earliest portrayals of a lesbian character in cinema, that of the Countess played by Alice Roberts. The Countess is but one of the many who fall under the spell of femme fatale Lulu, played by the legendary Louise Brooks in her single most famous role.
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OMG! Somebody else here has actually seen this movie. I tried to describe it once for someone, who told me it sounded like "Looking for Mr. Goodbar" set in 1920's Germany... Couldn't get him to actually watch it though.
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